You Only Want Me Cause I'm Taken

Chapter 12

~Faith~

Niall kept calling. He wouldn't stop. He texted me too, left countless messages. After two straight hours of my phone ringing, vibrating, and everything else phones can do, I finally picked up. My ringtone was What Makes You Beautiful. Mental note to change that, because Niall sang that song. I picked up, furious.

"Hello jerk."

"Faith, please-"

"Not talking to you. I hate you. I want you to die."

"Listen..."

"You're a liar. You're freakin' liar."

"I know what you saw. You don't understand."

"Don't understand what? Don't understand that you're a bloody cheater?"

"Look, I wasn't cheating on you-"

"Stop trying to deny it, Horan. I know I'm ugly and all, but I never thought you'd do this. I thought you loved me."

"I do love you..."

"No you don't! Damn it, Niall, stop lying to me!" I know it's not really swearing, but I usually didn't speak this way. Especially to Niall.

"Calm down! It was my-"

"Just shut up-"

"IT WAS MY COUSIN!"

"I - wait, what?"

"The girl in the picture was my cousin, okay? Now do you believe me?" I wiped a tear away from my eyes. I couldn't believe what I heard.

"Are you joking?"

"No! I'll give you her number and you can call to prove it!"

"Uh...okay..." He gave me her number, and I called it. A happy-sounding girl picked up.

"Maggie McDonald, may I ask who's calling?"

"I'm Faith Brennan, a friend of Niall's..."

"Oh, Niall. You mean Niall Horan, like 1D Niall?" I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yeah, that's him."

"It's about time he got a girlfriend. Thousands of girls are in love with him, yet he's still single. That's my crazy cousin."

"Ha ha, yeah, sorry to waste your time," I said.

"No no, don't worry about it," Maggie laughed. "Bye!" Relieved, I called Niall again.

"I guess I was wrong," I said softly.

"Faith, I'd never cheat on you. So why did you think that?"

"I don't know," I said. "I guess I overreacted."

"No, actually, you were right to act that way. I would act the same way if I saw you with another boy."

"You would."

"Yep."

"Niall, I'm so sorry about everything I said. I didn't mean any of it." I paused. "Niall I love you."

"I love you too, Faith. I thought you hated me...I didn't know what I would do if you really hated me." More awkward silence.  

"Um, I guess you were right," I said sheepishly.

"Don't worry about it. Trust me, it'll all blow over soon. So, do you forgive me?" Without hesitation, I said,

"Yes!"

"Okay. Um, I have a surprise for you."

"You do?"

"Yeah. Just be ready at midnight."

"Okay."

"See you then!"

"Bye, Nialler!"

Midnight

~Niall~

I stopped in front of Faith's window and hopped off my bike. I gently tapped on the window. Faith appeared, waved, and slid out of the window with ease. Rather than wearing her pajamas, she had on jeans and a hoodie. Perfect.

"You ready?" I whispered. She nodded and gave me a thumbs up. Like last time, I hopped on the bike seat and she got on the back. I didn't tell her where we were going. That was for me to know and for her to find out. Finally we got where I was planning. I saw Faith's eyes glow when she saw the sign. We were sneaking into a drive-in movie.

I pedaled my bike to behind the cars, where no one could see us. If we got caught, well, let's just say that I, Niall Horan, would be the new "Bradford Bad Boy". Wait, that's Zayn. I'm not even from Bradford. Sorry, what am I talking about? Oh yeah. Well, I parked my bike and Faith and I got off and sat on the grass. I didn't know what movie it was. Whatever it was was not a good choice for a date. There was a gangster pointing a gun at some guy's head in an alleyway.

"You'll die, you son of a-" The gangster got cut off by a loud booming sound and I turned my head away from a screen.

"Great choice, Niall," Faith whispered sarcastically.

"Come on, let's go see what else is playing," I replied. The good thing about drive-in movie theatres is that they're outside and you can just go from movie screen to movie screen to choose what you want. After passing horror movies, action movies, and kids' movies, Faith and I decided on the movie "Struck by Lightning". Faith was totally absorbed, but I fell asleep. The next thing I knew Faith was nudging me in the ribs. The closing credits were playing. "What happened?" I asked.

"The movie ended," she responded. "He died."

"Well, yeah, I knew that, we learned that in the beginning," I said.

"I know," she said. "Just supporting that fact, I guess."

"So, are you tired?" I asked.

"Yeah," she said. I stood up and gave her my hand to help her stand. We got on the bike and rode back to the Brennan house.

"Goodbye, love," I said when she was back in her room.

"Bye, Niall," she said, and leaned forward to kiss me on the cheek. "I'll see you soon."

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Not much of a cliffhanger, but there's more drama in the upcoming chapters! Please comment, I'm up to like 230 reads and 11 comments...so yeah. Stay beautiful!